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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · 11h

Whoo hoo! The final version of our first paper is online! So proud of the team. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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Katsu Funai @katsufunai.bsky.social · Aug 27

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share!
@uofunuip.bsky.social

Open Rank, Tenure Track Position – Metabolic Physiology - Salt Lake City, Utah job with University of Utah, Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology | 12844064

The Department of Nutrition and Integrated Physiology (NUIP) at the University of Utah seeks a Tenure Track faculty member at the rank of Assistant...

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Aug 18

Abstracts for Midwest Metabolism / TriMAD meeting are due Sept 8! That’s 2 weeks away folks! Join us in Ann Arbor this fall. www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Aug 18

Abstracts for Midwest Metabolism / TriMAD meeting are due Sept 8! That’s 2 weeks away folks! Join us in Ann Arbor this fall. www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

www.vai.org

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Nick Burton @nickburton.bsky.social · Aug 12

I’m really beyond thrilled to be included in this years Pew Biomedical Scholars cohort and to be able to meet all the incredible scientists in this program. I was in Scott Kennedy’s lab when he was a Pew Scholar and never thought I’d be lucky enough to also be one! www.pew.org/en/about/new...

Pew Awards 22 Researchers Biomedical Science Grants

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Jul 21

6 weeks left to submit your abstract for Midwest Metabolism & TRiMAD 2025! Join us in Ann Arbor this fall!!! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

www.vai.org

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Judi Simcox @judisimcox.bsky.social · Jul 10

Officially tenured. Thank you to all the mentors who guided me, and to the trainees who made this possible with your ideas, hard work, and scientific joy.

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Morgridge Metabolism @morgridgemeta.bsky.social · Jul 11

Spread the word - Join us! We’re hiring an assistant professor/investigator to lead a metabolism-focused research program @morgridgemeta.bsky.social in partnership with @bmolchem.bsky.social for tenure track position at @uwmadison.bsky.social. To learn more & to apply: morgridge.org/job-posting/...

Assistant Professor in Metabolism Research - Morgridge Institute for Research

The Morgridge Institute for Research, in partnership with the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, seeks a joint tenure track assistant professor to lead a vibr...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Jul 2

For ESIs dealing with grants being rescinded: if an investigator’s 1st substantial independent research award is terminated within the first 3 years of the project period (not due to scientific misconduct ) they can request the reinstatement of ESI status

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My First Substantial Independent Research Award Was Terminated Early. Can My ESI Status Be Reinstated?
June 12, 2025
Investigators lose their Early Stage Investigator (ESI) eligibility when they successfully compete for and receive a substantial independent research award. In the event an investigator’s first substantial independent research award is terminated within the first three years of the project period, and this was not due to scientific misconduct or other disqualifying events, the investigator can request the reinstatement of ESI status, using the ESI Extensions request tool in eRA commons. See Requesting an Extension for instructions.

For more, see the Early Stage Investigators FAQ page.

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Jun 11

Amazing NoWINski lab showing at the VAI scientific retreat - 3 poster session awards to 3 very talented lab trainees! #proudPI

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Jun 4

Sign up for midwest metabolism & Trimad joint meeting! Abstracts are due 9/2/25. The vast majority of talks will come from the abstracts - great opportunity for trainees! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

www.vai.org

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Jun 4

Sign up for midwest metabolism & Trimad joint meeting! Abstracts are due 9/2/25. The vast majority of talks will come from the abstracts - great opportunity for trainees! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

www.vai.org

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Ben Jackson @btjackson.bsky.social · Apr 28

I'm excited to share our latest story from the
@lydiafinley.bsky.social lab, where we show that it's not just whether cells take up nutrients that matters, but how and where those metabolites are used. Out now in @naturemetabolism.bsky.social: rdcu.be/ejFTs 1/

Intracellular metabolic gradients dictate dependence on exogenous pyruvate

Nature Metabolism - Jackson et al. provide insight into how metabolic adaptations that accompany cell state transitions drive reliance on exogenous nutrient availability, focusing on pyruvate as a...

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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · Apr 29

Intracellular metabolic gradients dictate dependence on exogenous pyruvate

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Congrats to @lydiafinley.bsky.social Lab!

Intracellular metabolic gradients dictate dependence on exogenous pyruvate - Nature Metabolism

Jackson et al. provide insight into how metabolic adaptations that accompany cell state transitions drive reliance on exogenous nutrient availability, focusing on pyruvate as a key metabolite in centr...

www.nature.com

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Apr 20

Very cool!!

Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · Apr 18

Spatial analysis of mitochondrial gene expression reveals dynamic translation hubs and remodeling in stress | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spatial analysis of mitochondrial gene expression reveals dynamic translation hubs and remodeling in stress

Quantitative imaging of the mitochondrial central dogma identifies translation hubs that are suppressed during stress.

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Brandon Chen, PhD @brandontwchen.bsky.social · Apr 17

Happy to share our most recent review on mitochondria-organelle metabolic communication with Yatrik Shah and Costas Lyssiotis now online at Molecular Cell!

We explored aspect of lipid transfer, organelle membrane contacts, ROS, metabolites, and metals!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mitochondria-organelle crosstalk in establishing compartmentalized metabolic homeostasis

Mitochondria serve as central hubs in cellular metabolism by sensing, integrating, and responding to metabolic demands. This integrative function is a…

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Eddie Rashan @edreesrashan.bsky.social · Apr 12

I'm excited to present my work on the deorphanization of atypical lipid catabolic enzymes at #ASBMB25 on Monday April 14th. Please come to W179 to hear my flash-talk at 9:30AM and hang out with me at poster #350! #lipidtime

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Mar 29

Registration is live for the 1st ever Midwest Metabolism & TRiMAD dual meeting, hosted jointly by VAI + U of M in Ann Arbor, MI November 10-11, 2025! We have some exciting speakers but most will come from abstracts so submit your best #mitochondria & #metabolism research! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

www.vai.org

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Mar 29

@soleimanpourlab.bsky.social @nieminm.bsky.social @lllackner.bsky.social @lyssiotislab.bsky.social

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Mar 29

Registration is live for the 1st ever Midwest Metabolism & TRiMAD dual meeting, hosted jointly by VAI + U of M in Ann Arbor, MI November 10-11, 2025! We have some exciting speakers but most will come from abstracts so submit your best #mitochondria & #metabolism research! www.vai.org/event/2025-m...

2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting

Join us for 2025 Midwest Metabolism Meeting at Van Andel Institute Stay informed about exciting upcoming events and activities.

www.vai.org

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Nick Burton @nickburton.bsky.social · Feb 28

I’m going to staple these peeves to my door just so my students know it’s not just me.

Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social · Feb 27

I have several scientific pet peeves: Comic sans in presentations, "statistically significant" differences that aren't substantially different, and GO terms. They can be misleading and are often so broad as to be meaningless.

GO Team: Hold my beer. GO big or GO home.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A compendium of human gene functions derived from evolutionary modelling - Nature

Evolutionary modelling and expert review are applied to integrate experimentally supported knowledge accumulated in the Gene Ontology knowledgebase to create a draft human gene ‘functionome’.

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Feb 26

I’ve had such a great few days of science and sunshine thanks to @fusionconf.bsky.social !! Super big congrats to lab postdoc Sam Preston who won a poster award!! Many thanks to the organizers for an awesome meeting.

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Sara Nowinski @saranowinski.bsky.social · Feb 20

Can’t wait for her to get here!! Love this story - super interesting stuff!!

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Lucas Sullivan @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 20

Next, our 2nd preprint of the week (!), this one driven by @madelouhart.bsky.social

Previously: Mitochondrial inhibition impairs cell proliferation by constraining aspartate (ASP) availability.

Here: we investigate the kinetics of ASP depletion/ proliferation impairments and...surprises ensue!

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Feb 19

Succinate Dehydrogenase loss causes cascading metabolic effects that impair pyrimidine biosynthesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.18.638948v1

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Lucas Sullivan @lucasbsullivan.bsky.social · Feb 20

Excited to share a recent preprint by Oliver Newsom, where we evaluate the functional contributions of serum for cancer cell proliferation. Inside:

A broadly applicable serum-free media,
Quantitative lipid uptake characterization,
Evidence lipid scavenging > synthesis for cancer cell proliferation.

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Feb 17

Defined media reveals the essential role of lipid scavenging to support cancer cell proliferation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637975v1

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